Architecture Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal,…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

— Rudolf Arnheim

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Order is what exists before you start arranging things.

— Marty Rubin

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order…

— Alfred North Whitehead

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

— Jostein Gaarder

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts,…

— Christopher Alexander

Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest…

— Fairfield Porter

Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the…

— Josef Muller-Brockmann

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams…

— Robert Southey